Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor (github.com)
60 points by 2Ucoder 3 hours ago
nxc18 6 minutes ago
Who else remembers when devs were complaining about flat design and the loss of corner radii, borders, and gradients? Everything old is new again.
P.S. Code is super late to the game on this UI trend. See Slack redesign circa 2023 https://slack.com/blog/productivity/a-redesigned-slack-built...
ramijames 35 minutes ago
It looks.. fine? I don't understand why people have to complain about every little thing.
myfonj 34 minutes ago
Rounded corners and pill-shaped buttons really infest UI everywhere, and I never understood what kind of ergonomics they are supposed to improve.
And fighting them is increasingly difficult, but at least somewhat possible:
- VSC luckily still supports
workbench.experimental.modernUI
On the web, we can use userstyles sharpening most dulled corners [1]. And if you happen to have seen upcoming Firefox skin, it is also pill addict's fewer dream. We can use userChrome.css, but web components are making it very cumbersome and fragile, basically constantly adding new custom properties, being glad they are really used [2]. But I digress. I really look forward for this pill mania to wear off, like wet floors, glitters, and similar fads.
[1] https://userstyles.world/style/8283/
[2] https://gist.github.com/myfonj/f5415dd0580663a82ea18407ef2ee...
misnome 2 hours ago
Lots of unnecessary whitespace, tabs changing colour to be confusing about which is selected…
They hired a new design lead who wants to make their mark, didn't they.
imnotr0b0t an hour ago
It definitely feels that way
2Ucoder 2 hours ago
I would call it more of a stain on your career when you use border radius like this.
klodolph 37 minutes ago
A stain is a kind of mark :)
msephton 2 hours ago
I came for screenshots and there are none, nor are there in the linked issue this is marked a duplicate of.
dvh 2 hours ago
Waterluvian's Law:
> The more an article would benefit from photos, the less likely it’ll have them.
layer8 an hour ago
The following issue has a good number of screenshots in various comments: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/325240?timeline_p...
dadoum 2 hours ago
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_129#_modern-ui-prev...
At the end of that video you can see the modern UI preview.
godshatter 9 minutes ago
I don't use VS Code, but when I look at the before and after in the video I can hardly tell the difference. I think the "border radius" problem is overwhelmed by the "too much crap on the screen" problem for me to really notice it that much.
jasonlotito an hour ago
Sorry! It seems the page can't be found
verdverm an hour ago
2Ucoder 2 hours ago
Screen shots? Just open the app, it is glaring with border radius.
jasonlotito an hour ago
You want them to install an app and then open it just to see images? That's crazy.
kps an hour ago
> Just open the app
I'd prefer not to.
imafish an hour ago
He says to open VSCode
antfarm 20 minutes ago
Round Rects Are Everywhere! (Andy Hertzfeld, 1981)
antfarm 2 minutes ago
Today, even most Apple devices are round rects.
2Ucoder 2 hours ago
A gluttonous heaping dollop of border radius has been added to my favorite code editor. It is effecting my coding productivity, as the change is quite harmful to the eyes. The designers have been plaguing the web with this exponentially. It was only a matter of time before it spread to desktop electron apps. That time has come now, I have reported this visual bug to VScode.
bigstrat2003 an hour ago
> It is effecting my coding productivity, as the change is quite harmful to the eyes.
You probably mean "affecting". As a verb, "effect" means "to put into effect" or sometimes "to make more effective". Somehow I don't get the sense you meant either of those.
pyridines an hour ago
Phew, thank you, their sentence was utterly incomprehensible without your correction. I couldn't possibly have guessed what they meant. Thanks.
GlacierFox 16 minutes ago
amelius 42 minutes ago
Can't some company just patent those rounded corners?
antfarm 44 minutes ago
"workbench.experimental.modernUI": false,RonanSoleste 2 hours ago
I stopped using vscode because of their ui a long time ago and went to zed. Never going back.
sp1nningaway 24 minutes ago
I fired up VSCode for the first time in months because I thought it would be a good tool to introduce a friend to LLM-assisted coding. I was so totally overwhelmed by the interface (after using VSCode every day for years!) that I gave up. I've gotten to used to the visual simplicity of Zed + terminal, or often just a terminal.
2Ucoder 2 hours ago
Honestly it is probably time I start using Vim.
RonanSoleste an hour ago
Vim is great. But Zed is more like VSCode in usage. And more lightweight too. Not as lightweight as vim tho :)
gerdesj 17 minutes ago
ivanmontillam an hour ago
This feels like the effective death of VSCode.
afavour an hour ago
I want to believe this post is sarcastic. But sadly you just can’t be sure…
hmokiguess an hour ago
Tangential: who's still using VSCode in 2026?
nxc18 7 minutes ago
Everyone who’s using Cursor, Antigravity, Kiro, or Windsurf, to start. And then of course the millions still using VS Code.